Shawn Walker

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Shawn Walker is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn Walker has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Communication, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Shawn Walker's work include Social Media and Politics (12 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (4 papers). Shawn Walker is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (12 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (4 papers). Shawn Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Mexico. Shawn Walker's co-authors include Karine Nahon, Hafedh Chourabi, Sehl Mellouli, Theresa A. Pardo, H. Schöll, Taewoo Nam, J. Ramón Gil-García, Kevin Driscoll, W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg and has published in prestigious journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Information Communication & Society and Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking.

In The Last Decade

Shawn Walker

22 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework

2012 1.5k citations Hafedh Chourabi, Taewoo Nam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shawn Walker United States	9	1.0k	556	377	371	357	25	2.0k
Λεωνίδας Ανθόπουλος Greece	23	1.2k 1.1×	590 1.1×	232 0.6×	385 1.0×	99 0.3×	79	2.1k
Sehl Mellouli Canada	18	1.3k 1.3×	648 1.2×	327 0.9×	492 1.3×	115 0.3×	74	2.6k
Karine Nahon United States	9	1.0k 1.0×	546 1.0×	154 0.4×	363 1.0×	122 0.3×	21	1.6k
Esteve Almirall Spain	17	884 0.9×	386 0.7×	288 0.8×	787 2.1×	100 0.3×	31	2.3k
Anna Visvizi Saudi Arabia	25	682 0.7×	414 0.7×	378 1.0×	300 0.8×	45 0.1×	104	2.3k
Pieter Ballon Belgium	24	799 0.8×	138 0.2×	328 0.9×	718 1.9×	124 0.3×	156	2.2k
Sotirios Paroutis United Kingdom	19	380 0.4×	200 0.4×	293 0.8×	405 1.1×	265 0.7×	41	2.2k
Peter Parycek Austria	15	502 0.5×	177 0.3×	216 0.6×	233 0.6×	104 0.3×	53	1.3k
Tuba Bakıcı France	8	541 0.5×	302 0.5×	169 0.4×	245 0.7×	74 0.2×	14	971
Nicos Komninos Greece	26	1.5k 1.5×	852 1.5×	186 0.5×	785 2.1×	23 0.1×	54	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Shawn Walker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shawn Walker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shawn Walker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shawn Walker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shawn Walker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shawn Walker. Shawn Walker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Andrews, Jerone T. A., et al.. (2024). A Taxonomy of Challenges to Curating Fair Datasets. 97826–97858.

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Walker, Shawn, et al.. (2023). VIRAL HEALTH MISINFORMATION FROM GEOCITIES TO COVID-19. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

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Kwon, K. Hazel, et al.. (2023). A Dynamic Analysis of Conspiratorial Narratives on Twitter During the Pandemic. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 26(5). 338–345. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, Shawn, et al.. (2023). Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 30(1). 167–189. 6 indexed citations

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Kwon, K. Hazel, et al.. (2022). Mobilizing Consensus on Facebook: Networked Framing of the U.S. Gun-Control Movement on Facebook. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1 indexed citations

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Bastos, Marco, et al.. (2021). The IMPED Model: Detecting Low-Quality Information in Social Media. American Behavioral Scientist. 65(6). 863–883. 10 indexed citations

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Walker, Shawn, Dan Mercea, & Marco Bastos. (2021). Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, Shawn, Dan Mercea, & Marco Bastos. (2019). The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms. Information Communication & Society. 22(11). 1531–1543. 49 indexed citations

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Walker, Shawn. (2016). The Missing Link: A Preliminary Typology for Understanding Link Decay in Social Media. 2 indexed citations

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Driscoll, Kevin & Shawn Walker. (2014). Big Data, Big Questions| Working Within a Black Box: Transparency in the Collection and Production of Big Twitter Data. International journal of communication. 8. 20. 65 indexed citations

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Driscoll, Kevin & Shawn Walker. (2014). Working within a black box: Transparency in the collection and production of big twitter data. International journal of communication. 8(1). 1745–1764. 79 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Sheetal D., W. Lance Bennett, Courtney N. Johnson, & Shawn Walker. (2014). A Model of Crowd Enabled Organization: Theory and Methods for Understanding the Role of Twitter in the Occupy Protests. International journal of communication. 8(1). 27. 34 indexed citations

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Bennett, W. Lance, Alexandra Segerberg, & Shawn Walker. (2014). Organization in the crowd: peer production in large-scale networked protests. Information Communication & Society. 17(2). 232–260. 180 indexed citations

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Walker, Shawn, et al.. (2013). Slicing big data - Twitter, gambling and time sensitive information. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Nahon, Karine, et al.. (2013). Information flows in events of political unrest. 8 indexed citations

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Chourabi, Hafedh, Theresa A. Pardo, J. Ramón Gil-García, et al.. (2012). Smart cities and service integration initiatives in North American cities. 289–290. 16 indexed citations

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Chourabi, Hafedh, Taewoo Nam, Shawn Walker, et al.. (2012). Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework. 2289–2297. 1472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hemsley, Jeff, et al.. (2011). A vision for information visualization in information science. 35. 531–537. 1 indexed citations

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Walker, Shawn. (2010). Budget Mapping: Increasing Citizen Understanding of Government via Interactive Design. 29. 1–9. 4 indexed citations

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Bailey, Mary L. & Shawn Walker. (2005). Towards "on the fly" performance models for conservative asynchronous protocols. 1431–1434. 1 indexed citations

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